Recently, a terrifying moment was caught on camera when an Israeli missile targeted a British journalist associated with Russia today (RT) during a live report in Lebanon.
Steven Sweeney, who works for the Russian state-funded broadcaster, was filming the destruction of a bridge and talking about missile attacks from Israel when one targeted him and hit him just meters away.
Sweeney said yesterday that attacking journalists was a war crime and today he himself was wounded in an attack. He was treated at a hospital for his injuries.
The video of the incident shows the exact moment the missile hit near the journalist, both the cameraman and the reporter were injured.
RT published a video of journalist Ali Rida, also wounded in the attack, reporting from southern Lebanon. Ali said that Israeli forces DELIBERATELY attacked them.
About three hours after the attack, the outlet shared a video message from Sweeney. He said: “It was a precision strike by an Israeli fighter jet. If you think they are going to silence us, you are very, very wrong.”
Israel has escalated its illegal and unprovoked military attacks against southern Lebanon and has repeatedly attacked civilian infrastructure.
Sweeney also accused Israel of attempting to carry out ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon.
